Marlboro Man Dies, 600 Sick Passengers, and 3-D Printed Food

Marlboro Man Dies of Smoking-Related Causes

The man who helped Marlboro sell their product died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder on January 10, the Associated Press reports. The disease likely resulted from the years the ad model Eric Lawson spent smoking Marlboros — sometimes as many as three packs a day. While he lent his face to ads in the 1970s and 1980s, by the 1990s, Lawson had switched gears to work for the American Cancer Society doing public service announcements against smoking. He was diagnosed with COPD in 2006 and was 72 when he died.

Illness Spreads Through Cruise Ship Quarters

It sure has been a bad year for cruise ships. Just months after one lost power, a Royal Caribbean 4,000-person cruise ship has been stricken with an illness that has left more than 600 passengers and crew members vomiting or with diarrhea, Reuters reports. The number of people affected has doubled in just days, and the cruise is being cut short by two days. The Centers for Disease Control are unsure of the reason for the illness, but they sent officials to board the ship in St. Thomas to start taking samples to discover what might be causing the illness.

3-D Printed Food Options

You can 3-D print nearly anything these days, including dinner. Bloomberg Businessweek has a round-up of different foods that can be printed. This includes chocolate that can be constructed into art, pizza that astronauts can take to space, and handmade pasta that’s significantly less time-consuming. As novel as it is, it’s also much more expensive (inventing the pizza cost $125,000). No word on the nutritional quality of the food.